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The ovens.
Oranienburg, Germany

Abandoned SS Brotfabrik

A crumbling bakery where forced laborers from the nearby concentration camp toiled to feed their fellow prisoners and Nazi soldiers.
Rome, Italy

Stumbling Stones of Rome

Brass cobblestones mark the places where individual Holocaust victims were taken from their homes.
The Jewish deportations memorial at platform 16.
Florence, Italy

Platform 16 Holocaust Deportation Memorials

Memorials at a Florence railway station remember the citizens who were deported from Italy and sent to extermination camps.
Bagels on a tray at Xoho Cafe in Tel Aviv.
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The Bagel's Complicated Journey Into Israeli Cuisine

The quintessential Jewish breakfast item is a trendy, foreign food in Israel.
Shira Rubin November 15, 2017
The 'Furrow' monument at the Stratište Memorial Complex
Jabuka, Serbia

Stratište Memorial Complex

An abandoned monument remembering the "Pančevo Holocaust" now stands as a shadow of its former self.
Berlin, Germany

Stolpersteine Holocaust Memorials

Tiny memorials honor individual victims of the Holocaust.
Mauthausen Memorial.
Marbach, Austria

Mauthausen Memorial

The site of Austria's biggest concentration camp now honors its victims.
The memorial church and two guard towers overlooking The Valley of the Dead.
Flossenbürg, Germany

Flossenbürg Concentration Camp

A preserved Nazi labor camp now has a Holocaust museum on site and memorials to the thousands that died while imprisoned at the camp.
On the evening of April 26, 1945, 6,887 prisoners are assembled in the roll call area before setting off on a “death march."
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The Prisoner Who Painted Dachau's Horrors

Georg Tauber's sketches and paintings are now the subject of an exhibition at the very site where he was imprisoned between 1940 and 1945.
Sukhada Tatke July 17, 2017
The building where Otto Weidt made brushes and hid Jews
Berlin, Germany

Otto Weidt's Workshop for the Blind

A brush maker used his factory to protect blind Jews from the Gestapo.
The main house and adjacent garden before the restoration.
Glen Cove, New York

Welwyn Preserve

The abandoned grounds and derelict greenhouses of this once-magnificent Edwardian estate are now a nature preserve open for exploration.
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MAV 424, the "Red Star."
Budapest, Hungary

Istvántelek Train Yard

The abandoned "Red Star Train Graveyard" is the final rusting place for precious artifacts of train history.
A newly discovered photo believed to show Grynszpan survived World War II.
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Found: A Photo That Might Prove This Famous Jewish Assassin Survived the Holocaust

His actions were used to justify Kristallnacht.
Sarah Laskow December 19, 2016
Memorial Exhibition "Wir waren Nachbarn"
Berlin, Germany

Wir Waren Nachbarn (We Were Neighbors)

A unique Holocaust memorial tells the personal stories of the Jewish residents exiled from greater Berlin.
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Found: Elie Wiesel’s Review of Disneyland

He loved it.
Sarah Laskow June 28, 2016
Risiera di San Sabba
Trieste, Italy

Risiera di San Sabba

During World War II, this rice mill became a Nazi concentration camp.
Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe
Berlin, Germany

Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe

Thousands of coffin-like pillars make up this controversial Holocaust memorial.
Camp 2
Oswiecim, Poland

Auschwitz Concentration Camp

The former Nazi Germany concentration camp stands as a museum to remember this dark chapter in European history.